MAGNETIC EXCITATIONS IN SMB6 SINGLE-CRYSTALS

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作者
ALEKSEEV, PA
MIGNOT, JM
ROSSATMIGNOD, J
LAZUKOV, VN
SADIKOV, IP
机构
[1] CE SACLAY, LAB LEON BRILLOUIN, CEA, CNRS, F-91191 GIF SUR YVETTE, FRANCE
[2] IV KURCHATOV INST, MOSCOW, RUSSIA
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10.1016/0921-4526(93)90580-Y
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O469 [凝聚态物理学];
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070205 ;
摘要
Two, essentially dispersionless, magnetic excitations, at energies homega1BAR almost-equal-to 36 and homega2BAR almost-equal-to 14 meV, have been investigated by inelastic neutron scattering measurements on a single crystal of mixed-valent (SmB6)-Sm-154-B-11. The latter one decreases markedly upon heating, or with increasing Absolute value of Q. It is ascribed to the spin-flip of 5d electrons which form a bound state with the 4f electrons of a given site by tunnelling over the octahedron defined by its six nearest Sm neighbours.
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